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The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Grameen (PMAY-G) is an owner-driven government aided housing programme in rural India, for the people below poverty line and women headed households who live in temporary structures. One of the primary objectives of the housing programme was to build high quality resilient houses across the country based on local materials and technologies that were labour intensive, cost-effective and, environment-friendly. The owner-driven approach encouraged people to invest their own savings, reduced cost of construction by 10–30 percent, improved quality of construction and reduced future maintenance costs. Considerable reduction of CO2 emissions (15-40 percent) was possible as compared to brick- and RCC-based construction. Through this housing programme, Government of India (GoI) facilitated construction of 29.5 million houses for families who lived in substandard buildings. It covered approximately 130 million people in the rural areas of India and provided them with high-quality houses. Click to Read |
